Tolfraedic Hot Links

Schwinn 24, King Arthur & the Carrots (1966)Kinky Friedman formed King Arthur & the Carrots while in college, and they recorded one 45rpm. Flip side was Beach Party Boo Boo, cover version here.

Knots.

Sparks.

Tequila.

THIS is THAT.

Beatnik’s Wish.

Walking on water.

Belle Of The Blast.

Uninstalling a roof raccoon.

Bunk & Twitchy – here and here.

“Are we there yet?” Victorian sedan.

Pizza Crunchy [h/t Corinne L. via FB]

Flight Lieutenant Sibanda’s helicopter.

Lillian Virginia Mountweazel (1942-1973).

[Top image: Created from a kindergartner’s drawing of a car? Nope. It’s El Super Auto del “Potro” Rodriquez, Ingenario Popular. The owner, Alberto Rodriguez (of Deán Funes, Córdoba, Argentina) left a message in the vid comments.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – June Foray & Bill Scott, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Devil In A Woodpile & Green Day

“True fun, not fake fun.”
June Foray and Bill Scott were my heroes, two of the most recognizable and ubiquitous voices of my childhood. They also did the morning traffic reports as Rocky and Bullwinkle in Boston. At 02:01, Rocky and Bullwinkle introduced a Kiss song on WBCN.

Cliff Richard & The Shadows had some stiff competition – check out the Billboard Hits for 1960. Sir Richard holds the record as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its active decades (1950s–2000s). The Shadows were Richard’s backup band (1958-1968), and they reunited in 2020 to play their 1960 hit Apache.

Bron-Y-Aur Stomp is a Led Zeppelin cover, named after Bron-Yr-Aur, a house in Gwynedd, Wales, and based on Waggoner’s Lad, a song by Bert Jansch that appeared on his album Nobody’s Fault But Mine. Go figure. I almost forgot – Devil In A Woodpile is awesome.

Possibly the greatest Ramones cover that’s not a Ramones cover. Green Day had some great stage moves, too. Yeah, I know, it doesn’t fit in with the other vids, but it clicks with me somehow.

Good God. It’s 2:30am. I’m outta here, see you in a few.

The .Gif Post No. 680 – Serious Cereal, Spazzy Doggie & Lab Laughter

[Found here and here. Third is courtesy of rightymouse, source unknown.]

House Spiders

Marlin Peterson did it (and those are daddy longlegs, aka harvesters, not spiders) on the roof of the Armory at the Seattle Center.

[Found here. More info and a timelapse video here. It’s in Google Maps satellite view, too.]

Bigass WTF Unearthed in AU

“A competition was held for biggest mallee root, and this entry from Tooleybuc was just shy of winning. […] At the mallee root festival in Ouyen, guests witness root tossing competitions. Whoever throws a 9 kilo (nearly 20 lb) stump the furthest wins.”

From Wiki:
Mallee is the growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber,

So there you go.

[Image, caption and more found here.]

Mousie farts are funny.

[Found here.]

The Past in the Present – George, Ben & Abe

According to the Reddit posts these images were created using FaceApp. Images found here, via here.

Batraquomancical Hot Links

Box Top, Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm (1958) Cobra RecordsRecorded at Cobra Studio, Chicago, the session lineup was Odie Payne (drums), Willie Dixon (bass), Eddie Jones (sax), Carlson Oliver (sax, vocals) and Ike Turner (guitar, vocals).
Did he really say Get bent? 😀

Cannonball.

Dogs loading bulls [via].

Stag Brew & Mr. Magoo too.

How to get where you’re going.

Crowd control had their hands full.

Corgi vs. Chook vs. Duck by Ozzy Man
(language NSFW, NSFK) [via].

Julliard School  exposed. [h/t alondrataylor73.]

Why missing kids are no longer on milk cartons.

Real life Superhero: Shavarsh Karapetyan. [h/t Paul Y.]

Smishing is a texting scam, been around for a few years.

Rockin’ Bird has a great earworm loop. Some pigeons learn to fake injuries for a handout. That one is in Melbourne Australia [source].

Covid-19 origins revisited (and it was not from a bat 1,500 km from Wuhan). Biohazards News Tracker is updated regularly, too.

“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going ’till we get there.”
“Where we going, man?”
“I don’t know but we gotta go.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

[Top image unknown source. Tineye has no matches, Google image search says it’s “soil.” It appears to be a whale carcass, possibly Hawaii.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Textron ARV, Malford Milligan, The Brothers Osborne w/ Darius Rucker & A Thousand Horses, and Thee Sinseers

That’s some serious Black Mirror stuff.

The Malford Milligan Band with Jeff Plankenhorn (I think) circa 2011. Can’t verify the the others.

“We had so much fun backstage during our last jam video that Darius Rucker decided he didn’t want to be left out…so we made another!” Whole buncha peeps in that one: The Brothers Osborne, Darius Rucker and A Thousand Horses. BTW, that’s a Doc Watson song.

Joey Quinones & Thee Sinseers‘ chicano R&B gets me every time. Reminds me of so many things long ago and far away. Hard to find the band lineup, but that’s Adriana Flores (of The Altons) on vocals.

Guess that’s good enough for now. Have a great weekend, do something nice for your mom, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 679 – Pulseberry, Dancearrrrgh & Bat Boy Beatdown

[Found here and here. Pulsating strawberry created from a photo posted by Pam M. via FB.]